Speaker:
-Walter C. Willett, Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition, School of Public Health, Harvard T.H. Chan, Co-chair of the EAT-Lancet Commission
-Lasse Bruun , the UN Foundation’s Director for Climate and Food

Time: April 23 8:30-10:30 am(Beijing)/April 22 8:30-10:30pm(EST)

Language: English 

Welcome speech: Haibin Zhang,Vice Dean of the Institute of Carbon Neutrality and School of International Studies, Boya Distinguished Professor, Peking University
The Global Accelerator for Food Systems Transformation (GAFST), officially launched in Baku during COP29, is a collaborative research initiative hosted at the C Force Lab of PKU, with academic supports from the Harvard Law School’s Food Law & Policy Clinic, and strategic supports from the Good Food Action Hub. The Accelerator will serve as a policy research, training, and international exchange hub to promote food systems transformation, which will set the much-needed policy framework for changes in food production and consumption to happen.

Introduction of the keynote speakers



Walter C. Willett, Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition, School of Public Health, Harvard T.H. Chan, Co-chair of the EAT-Lancet Commission.
Dr. Willett has focused much of his work over the last 40 years on the development and evaluation of methods, using both questionnaire and biochemical approaches, to study the effects of diet on the occurrence of major diseases. He has applied these methods starting in 1980 in the Nurses' Health Studies I and II and the Health Professionals Follow-up Study. Together, these cohorts that include nearly 300,000 men and women with repeated dietary assessments, are providing the most detailed information on the long-term health consequences of food choices. Dr. Willett studied food science at Michigan State University, and graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School before obtaining a Masters and Doctorate in Public Health from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Willett has published over 2,000 original research papers and reviews, primarily on lifestyle risk factors for heart disease, cancer, and other conditions and has written the textbook, Nutritional Epidemiology, published by Oxford University Press, now in its third edition. He also has written four books for the general public. Dr. Willett is the most cited nutritionist internationally. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and the recipient of many national and international awards for his research.



Lasse Bruun, the UN Foundation’s Director for Climate and Food.
He is an advocacy expert on food systems, energy transition, sustainable agriculture and social justice, with twenty years of experience in leadership, development, campaigning and movement building. In 2021, Lasse was appointed the global civil society lead on sustainable consumption for the UN Food System Summit Action and co-led the summits’ work on food system management. Lasse runs a small agro-ecological vegetable farm.

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